9. Turns out he’s a Prince
“L, Lord Nigel! If you are a prince, why didn’t you tell me in the first place?!”
After passing through a room, I protested to Nigel.
“Huh, I didn’t tell you?”
“You didn’t!”
“I see.”
Nigel acted dumb, but then he laughed happily.
He’s a prince, no doubt about it.
Gosh, his joke was in bad taste…
—to put it simply,
Nigel was also known as Nigel Lynchgiham.
In short, he was part of the royal family of Lynchgiham.
But that wasn’t all—
—Nigel was also the first prince, with the right to inherit the throne!
He was the future king!
I was surprised by that.
Well, up until now, I had been accustomed with seeing a cheap version of a crown prince whom was called ‘Claude’… but Nigel carried an entirely different atmosphere than him!
At every single street corner, there were people trying to talk to Nigel.
At first, I already felt that his name was familiar, but Nigel wasn’t that uncommon of a name. Also, I never thought I would actually meet the crown prince of a neighboring kingdom.
Therefore, I noticed it late.
“By the way, Eliane, could you stop referring to me as a Lord?”
Said Nigel with a serious look.
“A, as if I could do that—especially now, after I have found out you are the prince. Therefore, I’m afraid I can’t drop the formality…”
“What are you talking about? Eliane, you’re my benefactor. Without you, I don’t know what kind of fate I would’ve suffered.”
“But…”
“Eliane, this is my request. Please treat me like you always have. When you address me as lord, I feel at loss.”
Nigel shrugged his shoulders.
Each of his movements was akin to an actor in a play—I couldn’t help but notice them.
I thought I would argue, but in the end, I decided against it.
Back in my kingdom, when I was still the Saint, I was often addressed very formally too.
But it was a different story when it was between good friends.
In that case, formality would only increase the sense of distance …or so I felt.
That was why.
“…I understand, Ni, Nigel. From today onward, I shall keep calling you Nigel, as well.”
“Thank you.”
Nigel smiled.
Even though it was such a casual thing, it was as if I saw flower petals flying around him.
“Pardon me.”
From the hallway, people came with a knock.
“Welcome home, Lord Nigel. I heard rumors that Behemoth has appeared outside of Lynchgiham, therefore it’s good to see you safe and sound.”
Said a woman in a maid outfit.
She wore glasses and had an uptight expression.
However, it seemed that she was sincerely concerned about Nigel.
“Yes. Thanks to this girl, I managed to return safely.”
“—or so I’ve heard from the Knight Leader. Something about there being a magnificent healer.”
Knight Leader?
“She’s talking about Adolf. You still remember the old man who spoke to you first, right?”
H, huh!?
That dandy-looking uncle… he was the knight leader?
Well now that I had heard the gist of it, it made sense.
The one having a trip was the prince—there was no wonder that the knight leader was one of his escorts.
Despite so, in the end, escaping was the only thing they could manage.
I shivered at the mere thought of the Behemoth’s strength.
“Eliane, I want you to meet my Father.”
“Your Father… which means…”
“His Highness the King of Lynchgiham.”
“Well of course he is.”
Well yeah, of course the prince’s father is the king! That’s only obvious!
I never expected to have an audience with another king right after getting exiled from my former kingdom…
“…Is it alright for someone like me to meet him? Won’t I… end up unnerving His Highness the King?”
“What are you talking about? I’m sure he wants to meet you as well. My Father will surely be interested in you.”
Pon—Nigel casually hit my shoulder.
I want you to not touch me so casually like that…!
Because I will get nervous!
“Then I shall talk to my Father. Abby, this girl’s tired from the long journey, as such, help her prepare before she has an audience with my Father.”
“Understood.”
“Treat her with respect, alright?”
“That’s only natural.”
The maid called Abby gently bowed to Nigel.
Afterwards, Nigel excused himself from the room.
“Alright then, Lady Eliane. You’ve heard from the Master himself—first, let’s get cleansed.”
Said Abby as she reached out to me.
“I, I will be in your care…”
I couldn’t keep up with the rapid development of the situation.
Thus, I did as I was told and followed Abby.
***T/N: Ofc he’s a prince. Well, as long as he can make Eliane happy...
Tbh, author’s naming sense such as Lynchgiham and Wide Heal caused me to expect the ML’s name to be an equivalent of Aquasteed, like maybe Algebraham or sth.
You must mean “Lynch Him!”, as in lynching that idiot Claude.
We’ve been reading it as Lynch ham.
Prince seems competent. He should know names of important figures in neoghbouring countries. Does he per chance already suspects who Elaine is?
I still can’t pronounce the name of this kingdom.
Isn’t it just pronounced as “Lynch him”?
Don’t like Nigel too much. It feels like he realized who she was from the name (makes sense, since she was the future queen of the kingdom they’ve been at war with for a while now) and so immediatly clamped onto her to not let her escape.
A bad person wouldn’t be so easily well loved by the people in such great force.
She’s complaining about Nigel not telling her he’s a prince when she hasm’t mentioned she’s a saint
U mean former saint??? She got exile remember???
I didn’t know sainthood was something you lost when you traveled ?
In this story case it is, she is former saint from her former country, yeah it might not work that way in real world but this is the fictional world’s rule so it works however the author wanted it to.
It can happen, but only if you have sex though.
The prince and the kitchen ng of her former kingdom are idiots. (╯ರ ~ ರ)╯︵ ┻━┻
Thanks for the chapter…
Can’t wait to see ‘that’ idiot prince face when he see his kingdom completely destroyed. Or when his people rebeled and send him to guillotine (or better yet to be mining slave) and his bitch lover since she claim to be the real saint got exposed and being called witch instead then the angry mob burn her at the stake. That would be great…
Imagine how good it is to see those two expresion then, while drinking some lemon… Hahahaha…..
Everytime I see “Lynchgiham”, my brains automatically default it to “Lunchnham”. ?
Sounds like your nearbiest drive thru for junkfood
Gotta go munch’n’ham on my Lunch’n’ham
I laughed a little at the “cheap crown prince” remark. But laughed more at the dandy-looking old man because I was imagining an old man with pipe, cowboy outfit and keeps on winking at younger girls, looking all cool lolll
I think these people really have no idea who she acy is. So i guess Nigel’s intentions were of pure gratitude. They may know the name of the neighboring kingdom’s prince’s fiance but not the face. It is possible as the carriage driver from the beginning wasn’t also aware who she was and he’s from the same kingdom to say the least. ?
Sorry I posted on the wrong thread. Oops ?
The prince seems fine, but I cant take him seriously thanks to his name
Thank you for the chapter 🙂 I wonder if the king know she is the Saint? Will see
As a king he should know about the important persons of his neigbouring kingdoms (or have someone who keeps updated). This includes the future queen of one of the kingdoms.
And unless it is a very well kept secret he should also know what will happen when the saintess leaves that kingdom.
I hope it’s really like that, at least, now she will treated nicely 🙂
Thanks for the chapter…
Can’t wait to see ‘that’ idiot prince face when he see his kingdom completely destroyed. Or when his people rebeled and send him to guillotine (or better yet to be mining slave) and his bitch lover since she claim to be the real saint got exposed and being called witch instead then the angry mob burn her at the stake. That would be great…
Imagine how good it is to see those two expresion then, while drinking some lemon… Hahahaha…..
I almost shot tea out my nose at the ‘Aquasteed’ comment. Yeah. I love that story but dear god the names. Thank you for translating this!
Are you the type that pick up a weird stray cat and called it cute. I have a feeling that might be the case.
Eh what makes u think so
You pick another unique novel to translate again.
*glance at two stray cats in her house.
N, not reallym
Contrived as hell but it’s still fine. I’m thinking the point of this series is to jack up how well she can live outside of her previous circumstances to juxtapose how low her counterparts will fall after she left.
So yeah, still hope. We’ve seen worse.